Evolutionary Thinking
What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Comparing traits of humans and other species helps us understand the causes of our behaviors and the principles of cooperation and sustainability.
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What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Exploring the characteristics of our ancestors, their living conditions, and the things they left behind, gives us clues about the causes of human behavior and the importance of cooperation in the history of our species.
Ancient Ancestors Read More »
UC Berkeley’s Understanding Evolution project is a source of K-12 and undergraduate evolution education resources, largely from a gene-centric perspective. Our entry includes a discussion of innovations and conceptual issues within this project.
Understanding Evolution Read More »
Human language and our capacity for symbolic thinking are probably among the most challenging set of human traits to study and understand …
Human evolution – Symbols and language Read More »
Human Evolution Resources Cultural Evolution At Darwin’s time, nothing was known about genes. Darwin and others only knew from observations in the world that there is a lot of variation between and within speices, and that offspring resembled their parents. Characteristics are inherited in some way to offspring, and new variation come into the world
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Human Evolution Resources Gene-culture Co-evolution Biological evolution and cultural evolution are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they can influence each other. Genetically evolved human characteristics and abilities allowed for the accumulation and transmission of certain technologies, knowledge, behaviors, and environmental changes. These human-created conditions have in turn influenced our behavior, our body, our brain,
Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Read More »
A questionnaire or interview protocol to capture conceptions about the Self-Directed Education model of school design
A School Fit for Humans? Read More »
Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.
Ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school
Scaffold and ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school Read More »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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